broadbrim

American  

[brawd-brim] / ˈbrɔdˌbrɪm /

noun

1. a hat with a broad brim, especially one with a flat brim, as that once characteristically worn by Quaker men and common today only among certain conservative Quaker groups.

   My little ones don’t go out in this sun without their broadbrims!

2. Older Slang: Sometimes Offensive. Sometimes Broadbrim a Quaker.

   It was nice growing up where most of the neighbors were broadbrims.

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broadbrim British  

/ ˈbrɔːdˌbrɪm /

noun

1. a broad-brimmed hat, esp one worn by the Quakers in the 17th century

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Etymology

Origin of broadbrim

First recorded in 1680–90; broad + brim ¹

Example Sentences

The soldiers had on broadbrim hats with the crown of the hat shaped into a cone.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Arrived at the village, we encountered one little procession after another of broadbrim straws and Shaker bonnets turning out of the several houses as we drove past.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various

But on his rapid way he had found time to fling his hazel stick into a corner, his rough broadbrim upon the table, and these few emphatic words at his nephew: "Axel, follow me!"

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules

Has not Marquis Valadi hastily quitted his quaker broadbrim; his Pythagorean Greek in Wapping, and the city of Glasgow?

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

So Jim he popp'd first through the skirt of his coat, And then through his collar—quite close to his throat; "Now one thro' my broadbrim," quoth Ephraim, "I vote."

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn